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Re: Permission to NMU gcc-mingw32

2010-06-09 Thread Fathi Boudra
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Bill Allombert wrote: > Well, mingw32 has not been updated since 2007 and is barely usable now. > The license issues looks more like a pretext to stall it than anything else > since it is still possible to use gcc 4.3 anyway. I fully agree. You're welcome to provid

Bug#585125: ITP: build -- script to build .rpm and .deb packages

2010-06-09 Thread Fathi Boudra
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Fathi Boudra * Package name: build Version : 1.0+git.20100504 Upstream Author : Novell Inc. / SUSE Linux Products GmbH. * URL : http://www.gitorious.org/opensuse/build * License : GPL2+ Programming Lang: Perl Descript

Re: Bug#585125: ITP: build -- script to build .rpm and .deb packages

2010-06-09 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 06/09/2010 01:50 PM, Fathi Boudra wrote: It enhances osc package and make 'osc build' command available. Isn't "osc-build" a better name then? (less generic) -- Mehdi Dogguy مهدي الدڤي http://dogguy.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Bug#585125: ITP: build -- script to build .rpm and .deb packages

2010-06-09 Thread Fathi Boudra
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > On 06/09/2010 01:50 PM, Fathi Boudra wrote: >> >> It enhances osc package and make 'osc build' command available. >> > > Isn't "osc-build" a better name then? (less generic) discussion started, I opened a thread for renaming build on upstream

Re: Bug#585125: ITP: build -- script to build .rpm and .deb packages

2010-06-09 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:02:48 +0200 Mehdi Dogguy napsal(a): > On 06/09/2010 01:50 PM, Fathi Boudra wrote: > > > > It enhances osc package and make 'osc build' command available. > > > > Isn't "osc-build" a better name then? (less generic) I don't think so because it is usable without osc as

Bug#585135: ITP: zyn -- ZynAddSubFX engines converted to LV2 plugin format

2010-06-09 Thread Alessio Treglia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alessio Treglia * Package name: zyn Version : 1 Upstream Author : Nedko Arnaudov * URL : http://home.gna.org/zyn/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C, C++ Description : ZynAddSubFX engines converted to LV2 plugin

MAKEDEV, postinst and udev

2010-06-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, what should package that require a specific device file do in their postinst ? Many packages verify that the device does not exist and verify that /dev/MAKEDEV exists and do "cd /dev && ./MAKEDEV something" only in that case. This works well in most cases but if you're using udev when ins

Re: status of circulars dependencies in unstable

2010-06-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Bill Allombert] > Here the list of current circular dependencies: [...] > * perl perl-modules Heh, I suspect this one just caused a test upgrade I did of a KDE desktop from Lenny to Squeeze to fail. Upgrading perl-modules failed with this error message (in Norwegian, sorry about that): dpkg:

Re: MAKEDEV, postinst and udev

2010-06-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 09, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > This works well in most cases but if you're using udev when installing the > package, MAKEDEV will not be called and the device has no chance to be > created on the on-disk filesystem. If you later remove udev, you will have > a broken system since the device w

Bug#585183: general: .deb packages open with Archive Manager by default, not Package Installer

2010-06-09 Thread di
Package: general Severity: normal Tags: squeeze In GNOME the default open action for when double-clicking on a .deb package is to open with Archive Manager, which then complains 'Could not create the archive: Archive type not supported.' The context menu shows as the second option 'Open with GDeb

Re: MAKEDEV, postinst and udev

2010-06-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 09 Jun 2010, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 09, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > If you remove udev then you are on your own. There are still cases where not using udev is fine: chroots or in openvz containers. I would still want the packages requiring a device file to properly setup it in those c

Re: Possible Mass Bug Filing: String Exceptions Removed in Python 2.6

2010-06-09 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 04:43, Scott Kitterman wrote: > Without examining each package in detail, it's difficult to know the impact of > this error on each package.  I expect to file the bugs at normal severity and > leave it to maintainers to adjust it up or down. The MBF just happened (result: 1

A lot of pending packages

2010-06-09 Thread Lorenzo De Liso
Hi all, I'm a simple debian contributor: I'm trying to get my work in debian through a sponsor [1] [2]. The problem is that I'm waiting for a sponsor since 7 days+ (and not only me, in mentors.debian.net there are 20+ pending packages) [3]. Why are they in pending status and nobody wants to upload

Re: MAKEDEV, postinst and udev

2010-06-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 17:04 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello, > > what should package that require a specific device file do in their postinst ? > > Many packages verify that the device does not exist and verify that > /dev/MAKEDEV exists and do "cd /dev && ./MAKEDEV something" only in > tha

Re: MAKEDEV, postinst and udev

2010-06-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 09, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > There are still cases where not using udev is fine: chroots or in > openvz containers. chroots can bind-mount the original /dev if needed and openvz containers generally do not need other devices than the ones which come in the template. > > > 1/ udev to keep

Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-09 Thread Lorenzo De Liso
Hello, Il giorno mer, 09/06/2010 alle 22.44 +, Sune Vuorela ha scritto: > When I'm sponsoring packages, which happens from time to time, it is > normally packages that I somehow have a interest in. > I think that many other sponsors feel it the same way. Sure and I'm agree about that. > For

Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-09 Thread Lorenzo De Liso
Il giorno mer, 09/06/2010 alle 18.12 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ha scritto: > I don't think you are going to get a lot of traction for any proposal that > removes a DD from the upload process. > > So, lack of free DDs will always be a potential issue. I suggest you > encourage people to beco

Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-09 Thread Lorenzo De Liso
Hello, Il giorno gio, 10/06/2010 alle 09.31 +1000, Craig Small ha scritto: > That's exactly how I work when sponsoring packages. I look after 7 of > them and all 7 have a reason for being there. There is only 9 packages > that are asking for sponsors. > > Whereas for me that would be my worst ni

Bug#585183: general: .deb packages open with Archive Manager by default, not Package Installer

2010-06-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 09 juin 2010 à 22:20 +0100, di a écrit : > In GNOME the default open action for when double-clicking on a .deb package is > to open with Archive Manager, which then complains 'Could not create the > archive: Archive type not supported.' That’s because currently it requires ar, for whic

Bug#585383: ITP: xemacs-chise -- character prossessing based on CHISE Chaon model by xemacs

2010-06-09 Thread NIIBE Yutaka
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: NIIBE Yutaka Owner: NIIBE Yutaka * Package name: xemacs-chise Version : 0.23 Upstream Author : MORIOKA Tomohiko * URL : http://www.kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/projects/chise/xemacs/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C

Bug#585385: general: Package GTK+3

2010-06-09 Thread Javier Jardón
Package: general Severity: wishlist GTK+ 3 development has begun. There are already some tarballs of the actual development, take a look here: http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/sources/gtk+/2.90/ This new version breaks ABI and API, so a new package should be created. -- System Information: Debi

Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-09 Thread Paul Wise
Firstly, 7 days is a very short period of time to be waiting for sponsorship, some have been waiting since 2006. About your two packages: autotrash: sounds like the functionality should be part of GNOME/KDE, please talk to upstream about moving it there. ardentryst: seems like a good fit for the

Processed: reassign 585385 to wnpp, retitle 585385 to RFP: gtk+3.0 -- the GTK+ 3.0 user interface library

2010-06-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.35lenny7 > reassign 585385 wnpp Bug #585385 [general] general: Package GTK+3 Bug reassigned from package 'general' to 'wnpp'. > retitle 585385 RFP: gtk+3.0 -- the GTK+ 3.0 user inte

Bug#585183: marked as done (general: .deb packages open with Archive Manager by default, not Package Installer)

2010-06-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:24:56 +0200 with message-id <1276140296.9676.6.ca...@tomoyo> and subject line Re: Bug#585183: general: .deb packages open with Archive Manager by default, not Package Installer has caused the Debian Bug report #585183, regarding general: .deb packages open wi

Re: Bug#585183: general: .deb packages open with Archive Manager by default, not Package Installer

2010-06-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Josselin Mouette] > That’s because currently it requires ar, for which you have to > install the whole binutils, which is 12 MiB. So we don’t do that. How many percent of the disk footprint of a Gnome desktop installation is 12 MiB? Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-09 Thread أحمد المحمودي
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:13:35AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Sometimes the package is beyond my skill level (such as Java or > complicated maintainer scripts) or written in languages I strongly > dislike (PHP), which means I review part of the package and will not > sponsor it. ---end quoted text--